Now you can rest easy that xanga has *tried* to stop the kids, and they simply lied about the age and signed on anyways.
Because a false illusion of security seems to work wonders for USA these days. No need to monitor your kids or educate them about the hazards, which would have prevented the problem to begin with. Let us pretend that the kids will now all see that how well their honesty is paying off, and they will never ever think of lying about their age.
Yes. No need to check how they are using their online access, once they can't create sites on xanga.com... or once they can't create custom chat rooms in yahoo chat. Ofcourse no sexual predators would ever enter the normal chat rooms. Perish the thought.
I should have been clearer on the "walk away" part as well, then.
There is an alternate way of altering relationships with another country, which doesn't involves bombing them, trashing their infrastructure and imposing curfews in their cities.
It is called "diplomacy".
Lots of *other* countries practice it. Seems to work for them too... without needing to bomb others and pissing them off, I might add.
Make a law that penalizer companies heavily, if they are found to be contracting spammers for advertising.
i.e. They should be forced to submit annual report of their advertising expenditures, as well a copy of the same to IRS. If they lie about the expenditure, IRS gets them. If they tell the truth, they get penalized only if the person they have paid has been caught spamming.
Spammers wouldn't spam if there was no one willing to pay them for the spamming.
An idiot who still buys into this stupid nonsense.
Yeah right. Let us see... so Saddam was getting attacked. He had WMDs. He could have used them.
...But according to you, he said "Nooooo... I am about to lose this war, which I might possibly win, if I use these WMDs I am supposed to have, and which will even get US to get the fuck off my back just like they tuck their tails when China gets mentioned... but that will totally spoil my image. So I will happily lose the war, and not use these WMDs I am supposed to have, even if I don't have anything to lose by using them really".
Have you ever considered the fact that you might just not have to "solve the clusterfuck" that is middle east ?
Walk away. Holland or Poland aren't losing sleep over "solving middle east's trouble for them". Why the fuck, are you ?
You are completely blindsided by the fact that ramming planes into buildings is not the *only* way terrorists can attack. It was this very sort of stupidity that made 911 succeed. Right. They successfully attacked you *once* via planes, so they will from now on, *always* attack you only via planes. Do you seriously believe that ????
They blew up trains in UK. How are you safe from that right now ? Imagine a terrorist, disguised as a pubk with purple hair and what not, to cover up his features, taking the subway during rush hour with explosives. Boom.... or if you should check for explosives in the subways... how about buses ? or even disneyland ?... almost any crowded place.
Or just like I said above, just think of maybe 50 terrorists planting poisoned, contaminated products/foods in random shops all over the country, on the same day. It is just as easy as walking in, bending down, quitely taking out stuff from your bag and leaving it on the shelf. Even if the security suspected anything, they would check him for *shoplifting*! Not whether he *added* some extra stuff.
Do tell me, how you plan to defend against that ?
Simple answer. You cannot. I an keep throwing these simple scenerions at you, and I would assume that the terrorists spend more time thinking up easy ways to kill you.
So probably not to meddle in the middle east, is your only real option... if you can bring yourself to do that.
But ofcourse, since we cannot make everyone be in complete love with us, let us go bomb them and piss them off. Yeah, that will work!
You are the idiot.
You are completely blindsided by the fact that ramming planes into buildings is not the *only* way terrorists can attack. It was this very sort of stupidity that made 911 succeed. Right. They successfully attacked you *once* via planes, so they will from now on, *always* attack you only via planes. Do you seriously believe that ????
They blew up trains in UK. How are you safe from that right now ? Imagine a terrorist, disguised as a pubk with purple hair and what not, to cover up his features, taking the subway during rush hour with explosives. Boom.... or if you should check for explosives in the subways... how about buses ? or even disneyland ?... almost any crowded place.
Or just like I said above, just think of maybe 50 terrorists planting poisoned, contaminated products/foods in random shops all over the country, on the same day. It is just as easy as walking in, bending down, quitely taking out stuff from your bag and leaving it on the shelf. Even if the security suspected anything, they would check him for *shoplifting*! Not whether he *added* some extra stuff.
Do tell me, how you plan to defend against that ?
Simple answer. You cannot. I an keep throwing these simple scenerions at you, and I would assume that the terrorists spend more time thinking up easy ways to kill you.
So probably not to meddle in the middle east, is your only real option... if you can bring yourself to do that.
Point is to illustrate that your house can never be secure. So maybe you should stop going out and beating up and bullying neighbours, meddling with their affairs, and then complain about them hating you and trying to beef up your security.
If you stop meddling in midle east and pissing off people, you would not *need* this much security. They simply wouldn't be *this* desperate to blow you up, then.
After all, they are not this desperate about blowing up Poland or Iceland, are they ?
Ofcourse, since you are daft, feel free to have that reality-warping shield around you. Meddling in affairs of other countries is your God given right, and you will keep doing so, and "they" *should* love you for it.
And what a clever way to disregard the fact that all that is being suggested is, that USA gets "lower on the list" by stop doing stuff that puts it on the "top of the list".
i.e. Stop meddling in middle-east. One thing which is apparently not an option for Idiots like you.
IIRC, Al Quaeda has not made any attacks on Holland or Poland.
Indeed. The rise of fundamentalist Islam is the worst thing to have happened to the world. I completely agree.
But this is what Islam is all about! Wishful thinking will not make things happen overnight. And even if you *want* to commit total genocide and nuke a few dozen countries off the face of the Earth, it will just be a delayed suicide on your part too. Some of them have nukes too, you know ? Not to mention, it will just force everyone else who hates you too(Russia, China, Korea etc. etc.) gang up together and nuke you, before you come after them next. Your president has unfortunately given legitimacy to pre-emptive strikes, you know?
I don't really much fancy your chances against China at least.
Here is an idea though. What do you think will help terrorists more to recruit people to commit suicide to blow you up?
A. "Blow them up because they are uh...minding their own business mostly... but worship uh... a different God"
or....
B. "Blow them up because they have invaded our home, destroyed our people and culture, killed our children, women and brothers, and might/will rape our wives and daughters"
Which will get more people lining up to become terrorists ?
Depending on how you answer, is going to indicate your intelligence level. We have already seen though, what your President thinks to be the "correct" answer.
Apparently mere box cutters were enough to intimidate hundreds of passengers. They did not throw trays at them. How easy is it to instantly kill a person with a box cutter ? But there you are! They all sat quietly like sheeps.
Yes, you are right though. Same approach won't work. Passengers would now *know* that they are going to die anyways, and some might be willing to rush into action. Although I wonder how many would be willing to risk their lives if the hijackers just lie to them and tell them that they just want ransom or something ? But nevermind that.
How about just starting a fire in the plane ? Not *that* hard. Can be done with normal everyday chemicals that won't even register during your security checks. Six-seven simultaneous fires erupting in a plane and five-six terrorists fighting off any attempts to put them out. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO CHECK FOR EVERY POSSIBLE ITEM! PERIOD!
Germ and chemical warfare. There were attempts to poison the water supply of new york before as I recall. How about just replacing food products on shelves in a store, with poisoned ones ? Or contaminated makeup products ? People do not *have* to die en masse. The purpose of terrorism is to instill terror. Fear. It is not about numbers exactly. Do recall how much terror the anthrax scare spread. Now imagine what it will do to your economy if people were unwilling to buy food or make up products etc. from market.
How will you stop a guy from entering and *putting* some identical looking stuff on a shelf, from his pocket ? Search all the customers who enter the shop ? And do it for every damned shop ?
To paraphrase you, "How do you watch all the people, in ALL directions, ALL the time?"
Check your passanger by all means. But do know that it will *not* stop the attacks. It will just ensure that the attacks take a new form. Something you and I have never thought of before. Just like almost absolutely *noone* imagined that terrorists will crash planes into buildings.
Why are you guys such complete idiots ? Sure. Increase your security. Hunt down Osama. But also change your behaviour which pisses off other countries. Osama is supposedly in Pakistan. Not in Iraq. Are you completely daft or stupid that you just can't stop meddling in other countries' affairs? Stop getting people pissed off at you. Less chance of them willing to commit suicide to blow you up! Works fine already for Poland and Holland, you know?
Why are civilians such an illegitimate target?
And if a non-democratic country attacks you ? By your definition, voters did not vote for the dictator and hence you cannot bomb them. But the dictator is free to bomb your civilians, since your voters are the ones who sanctioned retaliatory action. I mean if *voting* was your criterion as opposed to attacking civilians being a straight no-no. Interesting situation. No?
Regardless, it is because making civilians legitimate targets, automatically condones 911 victims as legitimate targets too instead of it being recognized as a terrorist act. Is that your intention ? Clearly the same citizens voted for American's foreign policy of meddling in business of other countries ?
Or for that matter, it robs you of any possible security during wartime and otherwise. It okays kidnapping and even torturing of your citizens when they are off playing tourists. You can't go asking other countries to help save them, then. Fair targets.
Since most able men are drafted and hence in combat, civilians during wartime, usually consist of the infirm, the elderly, the women and the children. Now I am sure a person like you will derive great personal pleasure out bombing them, but some far more civilied folks believe that elderly, kids and women etc. are not really appropriate targets. Plus agreeing not to bomb civilians or hospital etc. of the enemy ensures that you can expect the same for *your* kids and parents and wives.
And doesn't that sounds suspiciously like "revenge" talk to you ?
It can't have anything to do with your meddling in Afganistan during cold war era, or in middle east ?
So best way to stop people wanting revenge, according to your brilliant mind, is to piss them off more, so that uh... they want even more revenge ?
Dude. Appeasement doesn't has to mean you have to offer them all the Gold in Fort Knox. It simply means mind your own bloody business and stop meddling in middle east and other countries! Why is that so f**king hard for you guys to do ????
Minding your business certainly has worked for Poland or Switzerland and a hundred other countries. Al Quaeda isn't attacking them, is it ?
Why are you insistent on being this dense ? Or is that natural ?
Japan and Germany didn't have nukes and could do little to retaliate.
Plus they were not organized terrorists organisations that could disappear at will and find popular support and funding from places all over the world.
Which is exactly why 911 has managed to scare you shitless, where Japan and Germany failed.
To boot, your major "ally" Pakistan is fanatically muslim, posseses nukes and has willingly shared the nuclear technology with Iran and various other muslim countries, not to mention North Korea. Try the nuke stunt today and see how many nukes get dropped over your major cities in retaliation. 911 will suddenly seem like picnic in comparision. All your military might won't be able to help you. It hardly helped in stopping 911 from happening, correct ?
These are the people who are fanatic and willing enough to *die* to just kill a few of you. They don't care what you do to them afterwards. Can you claim the same ?
After the 9/11 attacks, we only clobbered the Taliban. Since it was clearly an Islamic oriented attack, backed by numerous Muslims in a handful of countries, we should have nuked Medina ( the second most important Muslim city ), followed by an announcement that if something like that were to happen again, Mecca ( the most important city ) would be next.
You are quite possibly retarded. How old exactly are you ?
These are the people willing to commit suicide to take revenge. Do you think they will worry about what you will do later if they attack you again ? Newsflash! They didn't give a *shit* about what you will do later, on September 11th. And *you* are the guys with the biggest pile of nukes! A fat lot of good it did to you back then.
So what next then after the medina ? go nuke all the handful of muslim-countries and commit a genocide ? Sure. Except that the "muslims" are not just located all in middle east. Or just in hostile countries. You have muslims living in Africa. And in USA. In UK.
Not to mention your biggest "ally against terror". Yep that other *muslim* country which is run by a dictator as well, the guy toppled the democratically elected government and decalred himself a "president" by force. That same country where Osama is supposedly hiding, as per the CIA etc. The same country where most terrorists are being trained. It is an ally. So you plan to go nuking allies next ?
Or how about the other secular, democratic country next door to it ? The one which has the largest muslim populace in the world. Will you go nuking democracies too just because 20% of their population is muslim ?
UK has a lot of muslims too. Are you going to nuke London next ?
How about biological germs ? or say Cyanide/Anthrax type powder ? Something that a terrorist packs in, say a wallet ?
I myself, can think of hundreds of weapons... and am not even a terrorist. Say a trick watch with a concealed sharp-edged sliding backplate. It won't be expensive to manufacture. And watches are just one of *many* daily-use metal objects, passengers are allowed to carry on flights. What then ? Ban all watches ? How about concealed tiny cyanide needles ? It can't be that expensive or difficult to carry 4-5 cyanide tipped tiny pins in a wallet. Prick and kill one or two passengers to intimidate the rest. How do you stop *that* then ? Your metal detectors can detect small pins now ? What if the same pin is concealed in the said watch ?
Which of above exactly is so hard for a terrorist group to manufacture/obtain ? A custom-made concealed cheap trick-weapon ? or cyanide ? or pins ?
Since I am not some genius, one can assume that the terrorists will be able to think of stuff like this as well. You just witnessed an attempt to use liquids as weapons after just a few years of the first attack. This time we just got lucky since we discovered the plot in advance. What happens when they try the same crap again the *next* time with a different approach ? What will "random/profiling checks" achieve, if the weapon in question cannot really be detected ?
Obviously to you and many other idiots, especially the ones in the white house, attempting the impossible is practical.
But stopping the quite *well-advertised* cause of terrorists attacks i.e. stop meddling in middle east is not practical.
Indeed. USA's relations with Pakistan for past 3-4 decades have been a prime example of America being all for dictatorship and a totalitarian government.
Please do not prove the american stereotype of being completely ignorant about the rest of the world and thus making idiotic uninformed statements.
Since you are obviously someone with zero GK/IQ, India is a socialist-capitalistic democratic country over all. The place in question(Kerala) is a *state*! One where people have simply elected leaders with a communist philosophy. It doesn't automatically makes it a totalitarian dictatorship.
... which is more than what United states currently is incidentally, with a theoretically non-demoratically elected leader, who used a war to secure his legitimacy, and has eroded enough civil rights to make USA nearly no different from say, China. As such, a country with borderline braindead "democracy" questioning the will of the people of another democratic country electing their leaders through a democratic process, much much more hypocritical.
One would think an american would at least know the difference between a state and a country.
But stop being too stupid to consider the fact that thieves did not even once ask the owner to provide proof of ownership. Have you even RTFA ?
The thieves simply refused to return the phone. No demand of proof of ownership. They *had* been emailed on the stolen mobile to return it to the owner. They refused to make any effort to respond back, as required by law in almost any civilized country. They were contacted by the owner repeatedly which the owner has supposedly kept a record of. They did not even ask for proof of ownership. They simply argued that since they had found it, and owner was too careless, she did not deserve the phone back. Period.
Dear idiot,
Muslim is not a religion. Islam is the religion.
And GP is correct. India was invaded first by mughal/muslim invaders that came via Afghanistan and ruled it for a few hundred years, and then finally by british who came masquerading as traders and then managed to rule it by their policy of divide and rule and betrayals.
GP is referring to muslims as a community identifier rather than having anything to do with Islam the religion.
He is also off the mark. Muslim rulers of India at least did not loot the country and take its riches elsewhere. At worst they just imposed their own conservative culture on the vanquished. British on the other hand, tried their utmost to steal the riches and resources for centuries. The diamond jewel in the crown and scepter of the Queen itself for example, is property of India that was stolen away by the british, and has still not been returned despite repeated requests by the Indian government.
Or you can look at the examples of cruel exploitations like chopping off the hands of hundreds of "neel" dye farmers of Bengal, who were much more skilled than the machines of the textile industry of Britain, and were considered a major hurdle towards establishing a market for british textiles in India.
Go and read up a bit on history please.
You need to read more about the "Affirmative Action". Start from the Wikipedia's page [wikipedia.org] about it, for instance.
*You* read that page yourself. I have. And while you are at it, you also need to go back and read my comment again :
"Mind quoting me the percentage of jobs/seats reserved for blacks/minorties in USA ?"
Oh wait, you cannot.
Because as per the link you yourself sent the implementation of it as per U.S Executive order 11246 merely states : "It prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, skin color, religion, gender, or national origin."
And further down the page:
"Quotas are illegal in the United States, except when a judge issues an order for a specific institution to make up for extreme past discrimination."
So all that is done as corrective measure is, "Ok, you may sue the government or its subcontractors if they discriminate against you".
Is the same allowed in India ? Yes.
Does India take the additional step of making sure that past socio-economic discrimination is also counteracted ? Yes, via quota (From the same page from the entry about India : "Despite widespread agitation (mostly among students), reservation for the backward classes were upheld to the extent of 27 per cent (this was in addition to the 22.5% already reserved for scheduled castes and tribes, bringing the total of 'open' seats to only 50%).".
Can USA boast of having done the same for the blacks ? NO!
And you (meaning both the GP and by extension his defender i.e. you), have the gall to criticize India about it!
Would you at least bother to analyze the comments or your own links that you send as evidence of your arguement ?
Make it illegal to outsource to
A) Communist countries (china)
B) Immoral countries that still have a backwards caste system (india)
Ok. But then how about...
C) Unethical countries that still have rascism against blacks (America)?
Tone down on that self-righteousness and xenophobia buddy! Can't talk about China but India happens to be a democracy. And caste system is not something supported officially. When was the last time *you* guys had a black president ? Or a female one ? Or a muslim one ? India had a female prime minister and muslims(minority) as president. Chances of either happening in USA are near zero.
There can be tons of arguements against outsourcing. But quoting caste system etc. as one, is a cheap shot, in context to America's own problems with rascism. Heck, the latest Oscar winner is movie that talks about the very same issue.
And at least, Indian official responce to caste system issues is to actually *reserve* 50 - 60 percent of the seats/jobs in almost every damned sector/academia/government/(and a substantial chunk in)parliament for the lower castes. Mind quoting me the percentage of jobs/seats reserved for blacks/minorties in USA ?
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Now you can rest easy that xanga has *tried* to stop the kids, and they simply lied about the age and signed on anyways.
Because a false illusion of security seems to work wonders for USA these days. No need to monitor your kids or educate them about the hazards, which would have prevented the problem to begin with. Let us pretend that the kids will now all see that how well their honesty is paying off, and they will never ever think of lying about their age.
Yes. No need to check how they are using their online access, once they can't create sites on xanga.com ... or once they can't create custom chat rooms in yahoo chat. Ofcourse no sexual predators would ever enter the normal chat rooms. Perish the thought.
Now they are finally safe. Hurrah!
There is an alternate way of altering relationships with another country, which doesn't involves bombing them, trashing their infrastructure and imposing curfews in their cities.
It is called "diplomacy".
Lots of *other* countries practice it. Seems to work for them too... without needing to bomb others and pissing them off, I might add.
Make a law that penalizer companies heavily, if they are found to be contracting spammers for advertising.
i.e. They should be forced to submit annual report of their advertising expenditures, as well a copy of the same to IRS. If they lie about the expenditure, IRS gets them. If they tell the truth, they get penalized only if the person they have paid has been caught spamming.
Spammers wouldn't spam if there was no one willing to pay them for the spamming.
An idiot who still buys into this stupid nonsense.
Yeah right. Let us see... so Saddam was getting attacked. He had WMDs. He could have used them.
Sheesh. What a moron.
Have you ever considered the fact that you might just not have to "solve the clusterfuck" that is middle east ?
Walk away. Holland or Poland aren't losing sleep over "solving middle east's trouble for them". Why the fuck, are you ?
You are completely blindsided by the fact that ramming planes into buildings is not the *only* way terrorists can attack. It was this very sort of stupidity that made 911 succeed. Right. They successfully attacked you *once* via planes, so they will from now on, *always* attack you only via planes. Do you seriously believe that ????
They blew up trains in UK. How are you safe from that right now ? Imagine a terrorist, disguised as a pubk with purple hair and what not, to cover up his features, taking the subway during rush hour with explosives. Boom. ... or if you should check for explosives in the subways... how about buses ? or even disneyland ? ... almost any crowded place.
Or just like I said above, just think of maybe 50 terrorists planting poisoned, contaminated products/foods in random shops all over the country, on the same day. It is just as easy as walking in, bending down, quitely taking out stuff from your bag and leaving it on the shelf. Even if the security suspected anything, they would check him for *shoplifting*! Not whether he *added* some extra stuff.
Do tell me, how you plan to defend against that ?
Simple answer. You cannot. I an keep throwing these simple scenerions at you, and I would assume that the terrorists spend more time thinking up easy ways to kill you.
So probably not to meddle in the middle east, is your only real option... if you can bring yourself to do that.
But ofcourse, since we cannot make everyone be in complete love with us, let us go bomb them and piss them off. Yeah, that will work! You are the idiot.
dumbass.
You are completely blindsided by the fact that ramming planes into buildings is not the *only* way terrorists can attack. It was this very sort of stupidity that made 911 succeed. Right. They successfully attacked you *once* via planes, so they will from now on, *always* attack you only via planes. Do you seriously believe that ????
They blew up trains in UK. How are you safe from that right now ? Imagine a terrorist, disguised as a pubk with purple hair and what not, to cover up his features, taking the subway during rush hour with explosives. Boom. ... or if you should check for explosives in the subways... how about buses ? or even disneyland ? ... almost any crowded place.
Or just like I said above, just think of maybe 50 terrorists planting poisoned, contaminated products/foods in random shops all over the country, on the same day. It is just as easy as walking in, bending down, quitely taking out stuff from your bag and leaving it on the shelf. Even if the security suspected anything, they would check him for *shoplifting*! Not whether he *added* some extra stuff.
Do tell me, how you plan to defend against that ?
Simple answer. You cannot. I an keep throwing these simple scenerions at you, and I would assume that the terrorists spend more time thinking up easy ways to kill you.
So probably not to meddle in the middle east, is your only real option... if you can bring yourself to do that.
The point is not to stop security.
Point is to illustrate that your house can never be secure. So maybe you should stop going out and beating up and bullying neighbours, meddling with their affairs, and then complain about them hating you and trying to beef up your security.
If you stop meddling in midle east and pissing off people, you would not *need* this much security. They simply wouldn't be *this* desperate to blow you up, then.
After all, they are not this desperate about blowing up Poland or Iceland, are they ?
Ofcourse, since you are daft, feel free to have that reality-warping shield around you. Meddling in affairs of other countries is your God given right, and you will keep doing so, and "they" *should* love you for it.
Dumbass!
And what a clever way to disregard the fact that all that is being suggested is, that USA gets "lower on the list" by stop doing stuff that puts it on the "top of the list".
i.e. Stop meddling in middle-east. One thing which is apparently not an option for Idiots like you.
IIRC, Al Quaeda has not made any attacks on Holland or Poland.
Are you really that dense ?
But this is what Islam is all about! Wishful thinking will not make things happen overnight. And even if you *want* to commit total genocide and nuke a few dozen countries off the face of the Earth, it will just be a delayed suicide on your part too. Some of them have nukes too, you know ? Not to mention, it will just force everyone else who hates you too(Russia, China, Korea etc. etc.) gang up together and nuke you, before you come after them next. Your president has unfortunately given legitimacy to pre-emptive strikes, you know?
I don't really much fancy your chances against China at least.
Here is an idea though. What do you think will help terrorists more to recruit people to commit suicide to blow you up?
A. "Blow them up because they are uh...minding their own business mostly ... but worship uh... a different God"
or....
B. "Blow them up because they have invaded our home, destroyed our people and culture, killed our children, women and brothers, and might/will rape our wives and daughters"
Which will get more people lining up to become terrorists ?
Depending on how you answer, is going to indicate your intelligence level. We have already seen though, what your President thinks to be the "correct" answer.
Apparently mere box cutters were enough to intimidate hundreds of passengers. They did not throw trays at them. How easy is it to instantly kill a person with a box cutter ? But there you are! They all sat quietly like sheeps.
Yes, you are right though. Same approach won't work. Passengers would now *know* that they are going to die anyways, and some might be willing to rush into action. Although I wonder how many would be willing to risk their lives if the hijackers just lie to them and tell them that they just want ransom or something ? But nevermind that.
How about just starting a fire in the plane ? Not *that* hard. Can be done with normal everyday chemicals that won't even register during your security checks. Six-seven simultaneous fires erupting in a plane and five-six terrorists fighting off any attempts to put them out. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO CHECK FOR EVERY POSSIBLE ITEM! PERIOD!
Germ and chemical warfare. There were attempts to poison the water supply of new york before as I recall. How about just replacing food products on shelves in a store, with poisoned ones ? Or contaminated makeup products ? People do not *have* to die en masse. The purpose of terrorism is to instill terror. Fear. It is not about numbers exactly. Do recall how much terror the anthrax scare spread. Now imagine what it will do to your economy if people were unwilling to buy food or make up products etc. from market.
How will you stop a guy from entering and *putting* some identical looking stuff on a shelf, from his pocket ? Search all the customers who enter the shop ? And do it for every damned shop ?
To paraphrase you, "How do you watch all the people, in ALL directions, ALL the time?"
Check your passanger by all means. But do know that it will *not* stop the attacks. It will just ensure that the attacks take a new form. Something you and I have never thought of before. Just like almost absolutely *noone* imagined that terrorists will crash planes into buildings.
Why are you guys such complete idiots ? Sure. Increase your security. Hunt down Osama. But also change your behaviour which pisses off other countries. Osama is supposedly in Pakistan. Not in Iraq. Are you completely daft or stupid that you just can't stop meddling in other countries' affairs? Stop getting people pissed off at you. Less chance of them willing to commit suicide to blow you up! Works fine already for Poland and Holland, you know?
Dumbass!!!!
Regardless, it is because making civilians legitimate targets, automatically condones 911 victims as legitimate targets too instead of it being recognized as a terrorist act. Is that your intention ? Clearly the same citizens voted for American's foreign policy of meddling in business of other countries ?
Or for that matter, it robs you of any possible security during wartime and otherwise. It okays kidnapping and even torturing of your citizens when they are off playing tourists. You can't go asking other countries to help save them, then. Fair targets.
Since most able men are drafted and hence in combat, civilians during wartime, usually consist of the infirm, the elderly, the women and the children. Now I am sure a person like you will derive great personal pleasure out bombing them, but some far more civilied folks believe that elderly, kids and women etc. are not really appropriate targets. Plus agreeing not to bomb civilians or hospital etc. of the enemy ensures that you can expect the same for *your* kids and parents and wives.
But ofcourse, this would make you very unhappy.
It can't have anything to do with your meddling in Afganistan during cold war era, or in middle east ?
So best way to stop people wanting revenge, according to your brilliant mind, is to piss them off more, so that uh... they want even more revenge ?
Dude. Appeasement doesn't has to mean you have to offer them all the Gold in Fort Knox. It simply means mind your own bloody business and stop meddling in middle east and other countries! Why is that so f**king hard for you guys to do ????
Minding your business certainly has worked for Poland or Switzerland and a hundred other countries. Al Quaeda isn't attacking them, is it ?
Why are you insistent on being this dense ? Or is that natural ?
Plus they were not organized terrorists organisations that could disappear at will and find popular support and funding from places all over the world.
Which is exactly why 911 has managed to scare you shitless, where Japan and Germany failed.
To boot, your major "ally" Pakistan is fanatically muslim, posseses nukes and has willingly shared the nuclear technology with Iran and various other muslim countries, not to mention North Korea. Try the nuke stunt today and see how many nukes get dropped over your major cities in retaliation. 911 will suddenly seem like picnic in comparision. All your military might won't be able to help you. It hardly helped in stopping 911 from happening, correct ?
These are the people who are fanatic and willing enough to *die* to just kill a few of you. They don't care what you do to them afterwards. Can you claim the same ?
And ever heard about ULFA and LTTE?
And those sarin gas subway attacks in Japan ?
What world are you from, Pal?
Talk about putting foot in mouth...
You are quite possibly retarded. How old exactly are you ?
These are the people willing to commit suicide to take revenge. Do you think they will worry about what you will do later if they attack you again ? Newsflash! They didn't give a *shit* about what you will do later, on September 11th. And *you* are the guys with the biggest pile of nukes! A fat lot of good it did to you back then.
So what next then after the medina ? go nuke all the handful of muslim-countries and commit a genocide ? Sure. Except that the "muslims" are not just located all in middle east. Or just in hostile countries. You have muslims living in Africa. And in USA. In UK.
Not to mention your biggest "ally against terror". Yep that other *muslim* country which is run by a dictator as well, the guy toppled the democratically elected government and decalred himself a "president" by force. That same country where Osama is supposedly hiding, as per the CIA etc. The same country where most terrorists are being trained. It is an ally. So you plan to go nuking allies next ? Or how about the other secular, democratic country next door to it ? The one which has the largest muslim populace in the world. Will you go nuking democracies too just because 20% of their population is muslim ?
UK has a lot of muslims too. Are you going to nuke London next ?
Geez. What an idiot!
So you are now checking for knives and guns.
How about biological germs ? or say Cyanide/Anthrax type powder ? Something that a terrorist packs in, say a wallet ?
I myself, can think of hundreds of weapons... and am not even a terrorist. Say a trick watch with a concealed sharp-edged sliding backplate. It won't be expensive to manufacture. And watches are just one of *many* daily-use metal objects, passengers are allowed to carry on flights. What then ? Ban all watches ? How about concealed tiny cyanide needles ? It can't be that expensive or difficult to carry 4-5 cyanide tipped tiny pins in a wallet. Prick and kill one or two passengers to intimidate the rest. How do you stop *that* then ? Your metal detectors can detect small pins now ? What if the same pin is concealed in the said watch ?
Which of above exactly is so hard for a terrorist group to manufacture/obtain ? A custom-made concealed cheap trick-weapon ? or cyanide ? or pins ?
Since I am not some genius, one can assume that the terrorists will be able to think of stuff like this as well. You just witnessed an attempt to use liquids as weapons after just a few years of the first attack. This time we just got lucky since we discovered the plot in advance. What happens when they try the same crap again the *next* time with a different approach ? What will "random/profiling checks" achieve, if the weapon in question cannot really be detected ?
Obviously to you and many other idiots, especially the ones in the white house, attempting the impossible is practical.
But stopping the quite *well-advertised* cause of terrorists attacks i.e. stop meddling in middle east is not practical.
Sheesh!
Indeed. USA's relations with Pakistan for past 3-4 decades have been a prime example of America being all for dictatorship and a totalitarian government.
Since you are obviously someone with zero GK/IQ, India is a socialist-capitalistic democratic country over all. The place in question(Kerala) is a *state*! One where people have simply elected leaders with a communist philosophy. It doesn't automatically makes it a totalitarian dictatorship.
One would think an american would at least know the difference between a state and a country.
But stop being too stupid to consider the fact that thieves did not even once ask the owner to provide proof of ownership. Have you even RTFA ?
The thieves simply refused to return the phone. No demand of proof of ownership. They *had* been emailed on the stolen mobile to return it to the owner. They refused to make any effort to respond back, as required by law in almost any civilized country. They were contacted by the owner repeatedly which the owner has supposedly kept a record of. They did not even ask for proof of ownership. They simply argued that since they had found it, and owner was too careless, she did not deserve the phone back. Period.
That definitely qualifies as theft.
Mate, you are an idiot. Yes, You do not have a *duty* to actively look for the owner.
But should the owner locate you instead and demand his property back, you do have a duty to return it to him. Refusing to do so, is definitely theft.
How about cyber warfare ? or cyber terrorism ?
Think of it this way...
"Wall street, give me all your money or I deauthorize all your windows terminals and completely disrupt your stock exchange".
or ... just virus/worms coded to launch attacks against windows machines on key networks from certain enemy nations ? say North Korea or China ?
Dear idiot, Muslim is not a religion. Islam is the religion. And GP is correct. India was invaded first by mughal/muslim invaders that came via Afghanistan and ruled it for a few hundred years, and then finally by british who came masquerading as traders and then managed to rule it by their policy of divide and rule and betrayals. GP is referring to muslims as a community identifier rather than having anything to do with Islam the religion. He is also off the mark. Muslim rulers of India at least did not loot the country and take its riches elsewhere. At worst they just imposed their own conservative culture on the vanquished. British on the other hand, tried their utmost to steal the riches and resources for centuries. The diamond jewel in the crown and scepter of the Queen itself for example, is property of India that was stolen away by the british, and has still not been returned despite repeated requests by the Indian government. Or you can look at the examples of cruel exploitations like chopping off the hands of hundreds of "neel" dye farmers of Bengal, who were much more skilled than the machines of the textile industry of Britain, and were considered a major hurdle towards establishing a market for british textiles in India. Go and read up a bit on history please.
Which no sane company will ofcourse do. Especially considering that their entire business model depends on adware/spyware.
So all I can surmise is, they are trying to get at least some good PR value out of a bad quarter :p
They do need a more positive public perception of them, considering the recent cases against spyware makers/distributors.
You need to read more about the "Affirmative Action". Start from the Wikipedia's page [wikipedia.org] about it, for instance.
*You* read that page yourself. I have. And while you are at it, you also need to go back and read my comment again :"Mind quoting me the percentage of jobs/seats reserved for blacks/minorties in USA ?"
Oh wait, you cannot.
Because as per the link you yourself sent the implementation of it as per U.S Executive order 11246 merely states : "It prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, skin color, religion, gender, or national origin."
And further down the page :
"Quotas are illegal in the United States, except when a judge issues an order for a specific institution to make up for extreme past discrimination."
So all that is done as corrective measure is, "Ok, you may sue the government or its subcontractors if they discriminate against you".
Is the same allowed in India ? Yes.
Does India take the additional step of making sure that past socio-economic discrimination is also counteracted ? Yes, via quota (From the same page from the entry about India : "Despite widespread agitation (mostly among students), reservation for the backward classes were upheld to the extent of 27 per cent (this was in addition to the 22.5% already reserved for scheduled castes and tribes, bringing the total of 'open' seats to only 50%).".
Can USA boast of having done the same for the blacks ? NO!
And you (meaning both the GP and by extension his defender i.e. you), have the gall to criticize India about it!
Would you at least bother to analyze the comments or your own links that you send as evidence of your arguement ?
Ok. But then how about ...
C) Unethical countries that still have rascism against blacks (America)?
Tone down on that self-righteousness and xenophobia buddy! Can't talk about China but India happens to be a democracy. And caste system is not something supported officially. When was the last time *you* guys had a black president ? Or a female one ? Or a muslim one ? India had a female prime minister and muslims(minority) as president. Chances of either happening in USA are near zero.
There can be tons of arguements against outsourcing. But quoting caste system etc. as one, is a cheap shot, in context to America's own problems with rascism. Heck, the latest Oscar winner is movie that talks about the very same issue.
And at least, Indian official responce to caste system issues is to actually *reserve* 50 - 60 percent of the seats/jobs in almost every damned sector/academia/government/(and a substantial chunk in)parliament for the lower castes. Mind quoting me the percentage of jobs/seats reserved for blacks/minorties in USA ?
Talk about kettle calling the pot black...